[leahjhburton]

The sutta is describing our experience of the world. The Buddha's liberative teachings are entirely experiential, concerned with our experience. They do not attempt to explain how the world came about or how we got here. They do not proclaim "Life is Suffering"; they proclaim "There is suffering, and its cause is craving through ignorance." This is an experiential teaching, a teaching about how we experience the world.

If our experience of the world is clouded by ignorance, we suffer. With the quenching of ignorance comes the quenching of suffering.